Events
2020/21 - Looking Back
As the 2020/21 academic year has come to end, we want to conclude it with a huge thank you to all the amazing individuals, including all the company representatives, PhD and postdoc students and professors as well as all the companies that helped us organise a range of amazing events.
Despite the difficult circumstances we managed to organise more than 15 events throughout the academic year as well as an Apply with AUWISE and a PhD week. The student response was amazing, and we are delighted we were still able to offer so many opportunities during these though times, when many aspects of life we considered normal were strictly limited.
However, we are aware that none of it would be possible without cooperation from different individuals and companies. With that in mind, we owe a great thank you to all the following:
- Emerson
- EY
- AMTE Power
- The Net Zero Technology Centre
- EQUATE Scotland
- Ms Ashley Llewellyn
- The Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science and Ms Katie Wilde
- NovaBiotics Ltd and Dr Deborah O’Neil
- Creshia Jones, MEng
- Prof Bedour Alshaigy
- Marks & Clerk Intellectual Property Services, David Murray and Stefanie Glassford
- Prof Bettina Platt
- Dr Marie Šabacká
- PhD students Sarah Barakat and Serena Simonetti, Dr Shima Abdullateef and Dr Gordon Waiter
Thank you for your enthusiasm and participation, each event was unique and inspiring in its own way and we enjoyed every single one.
Thank you to all of those that attend any of our events as well - we hope they helped inspire and encourage you on your academic and career paths.
Despite the fact that we have to say goodbye for this academic year, this is by no means the last you will hear from AUWISE – we are already planning a new set of exciting events and opportunities for you and we cannot wait to share them very soon!
Until then, enjoy your well-deserved break, we cannot wait to see you (hopefully in person this time) in September!
Keep your eyes peeled for a recap of the highlights of the past year and an introduction to our 2021/22 committee!
AGM Results
Hello everyone!
I hope everyone is keeping safe and indoors.
So our AGM is now done and here is the current committee members and their posts.
President: Agnieszka Fandrey
Vice President: Daniel Thompson
Treasurer: Jerneja Koren
Natural and Computing science Rep: Florina Birkert
Congratulations and looking forward to another great year!There are a couple of representative positions to fill, however, under current circumstances we are going to wait until freshers to fill these positions. If you are interested, then please dont hesitate to contact us. Stay safe!
Our experience
Up next to share their experience is our Secretary, Daniel Thompson.
"I am a third-year chemistry student. The role of secretary had a variety of duties including organising events, booking rooms, completing forms and applications for AUSA, doing the minutes for meetings, and dealing with correspondence like emails and messages.
The role helped me develop my communication as well as time-management skills as you really had to communicate with your fellow committee members and I had to manage my time effectively with studies also. It was a really fun experience and I met a lot of really fantastic people."
If you are interested in this or any other of the roles send
us PM with a short description of you and why you would
like to apply for this role.
Just a reminder that the application finishes tomorrow
Our experience
We decided to share some of our experiences as this years committee.
First up our Medical Sciences Rep Karolina Juhani:
I am a third-year biomedical sciences
(pharmacology), student. The role of a life sciences
representative is to advertise various AUWiSE
events to the School of Medicine, Medical
Sciences and Nutrition and help brainstorm ideas
with the committee for our events. The role helped
me develop my communication as well as
time-management skills. If you are interested in
this or any other of the roles send us PM with a
short description of you and why you would like to
apply for this role .
Annual General Meeting
It’s that time of the year! Time for our AGM. With everything that has happened and all of the announcement from the university, we thought it’s best to conduct our AGM online! So here are the positions that we have;
President
Vice president
Secretary
Treasurer
Social representative
Public relations representative
Engineering rep
Natural and computing sciences rep
Medical sciences rep
Please send us a message of the position you’d like to undertake with a description of why you’d like that position and a description about yourself. All of the positions will be collated and organised on a Google survey for the election vote. Deadline for submission will be Wednesday 25th March. Thank you and we hope everyone is keeping well.
https://facebook.com/events/s/auwise-agm-2020/498077504203241/?ti=as
Thank you!!!
We would like to thank Dr. Giannaccini for giving us an amazing talk last week.
We loved learning about her inspiring research in Soft Robotics If you enjoyed her talk or are looking for a PhD opportunity Dr. Giannaccini has currently an exciting PhD opportunity open The research is focused on Soft Robotics and wearable technologies in healthcare.
Find out more here
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/soft-robotics-wearable-technologies-in-healthcare/?p117718
A day in the life of...
Another ‘A day in the life of a…’ event with AUWiSE! Come meet us and our guest speaker, Dr Elena Giannaccini (see more about her background below).
When: 4th of March, 5-7pm
Where: MR315
See you all there!
More about Dr Elena Giannaccini: She is a lecturer in Robotics at the University of Aberdeen. She obtained her PhD in Robotics as part of the Marie-Curie ITN project INTRO. Her research interests span the fields of mechatronics, soft robotics, bioinspiration, and robot sensing. During her ten years of first-hand research activities she successfully designed and built robotic platforms for robotics and automation, including a ground-breaking artificial, implantable larynx in her recent post at the University of Bristol. She was part of the team that won the 2016 Harvard Soft Robotics Toolkit Design Competition and she was editor and co-organiser of the 2018 Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems (TAROS) Conference. As PI she was awarded the University of Bristol Research Priming Funding and the Binks Trust funding for tactile sensing research with the Technical University of Munich. Elena was also Co-Investigator on the successful EPSRC Impact Acceleration bid for Neuromorphic Tactile Sensing.
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
We wish you a Happy International Women and Girls in Science Day!!
LightBulb2020
Lightbulb2020 presents entrepreneurial workshops aimed to develop student entrepreneurs!
Each one of us has had that epiphany for “the best business idea ever”. But what should you do then? How can you efficiently set up your business?
Lightbulb2020 workshops will teach you how to get from that idea to launching a startup!
In previous events they have spoken about the Customer Value Proposition Canvas, the Minimum Viable Product that businesses need to be successful and have broken down some of the most successful startups in the UK to see them in action.
If you are a University of Aberdeen student this is the perfect opportunity for you to learn about the world of entrepreneurship and find out about the opportunities they offer on campus!
They have events all through the month and their next event is on Wednesday January 29th!
You can also get a free ticket to their next event by going to the following link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lightbulb2020-ideation-session-by-skillfluence-tickets-85782041395
Additionally, you can follow their events and see their Facebook page down below to stay updated:
Networking event- Equate
!!! It’s time for the first AUWISE event of 2020 !!!
Don’t know where to start with your CV or concerned it’s not getting you an interview?
This workshop is designed to help. Get clear on what you want from your future career; hear some great tips on CVs, interviews, networking and find out how to stand out in a competitive job market. Prepare yourself for the job search ahead.
This workshop will help you to:
• Align your application to your chosen employer.
• Explore what a great CV looks like and whether you should try to highlight or hide gaps?
• Understand how the job market is changing and what you need to do differently.
• Gain an insight to the different interview techniques used by employers: why and when they are used.
• Focus on developing your personal brand and top networking tips particularly on LinkedIn
After the workshop you will hear from Lynn MacFarlane a Project Engineer at Rever Offshore who will give us insight into her career journey and top tips on standing out in the STEM job market.
EQUATE Scotland tries to make a positive difference for women in STEM.
See you there!
21/01/2020
5-7.30pm
NK11
A day in the life of...
We invite you to our second “A day in the life of…” series event of the year! We will be having a presentation by Peter Ikhianosimhe Imoesi, a postdoctoral researcher at TauRx Pharmaceuticals (a leader in Alzheimer’s disease research).
Room NK7
18:00-19:00
15th November
Networking event- Ernst and Young
Hey everyone, we’re really excited to announce our next upcoming event in collaboration with Ernst and Young!
Who said that the business world is male? Join us to find out about how a number of EY female managers build their way up to leadership positions within the company.
The event will start off with a presentation about EY to get to know them and the opportunities they offer to students. A panel questions will follow to discover about the workplace culture, challenges and rewards of the job.
Finally, you’ll get the chance to ask questions and have a more informal chat with EY!Please, if attending sign up on the following link to make sure we can organise the event to the best of our standards!
The event is in MR268 on Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 5:15 PM
https://forms.akkroo.com/events/ey/289172?type=preregister&background=ffffff&font=808080&page=ffe600
Talk from RAF
“For over a hundred years the Royal Air Force has defended the skies of Britain and projected Britain’s power and influence around the world.”The University of Aberdeen has the honour to host RAF: Thursday (17/10), 12-13pm. MR613
Come along to find out more! Free VR headset and Linkedin photos!!!
Thank you!
Thank you so much Sylvia Soldatou for a very informative insight into the life of a postgraduate researcher and about your research in natural products, as well as your project at the marine biodiscovery centre! Really great to see you all, thank you all for coming and enjoy the pub quiz!
A day in the life of...
We invite you to our first “A day in the life of…” Series event of the year!
We will be having a presentation by Sylvia Soldatou, a postdoctoral researcher at the marine biodiscovery centre who focuses on natural products.Her talk will be about her career and will give us an insight on her research on the discovery of novel drugs through her work with natural products. The title of her project is “Antimicrobial secondary metabolites from marine endophytic fungi for functionalisation of textiles”.
This will be a joint event with the Chemistry Society as they have their pub quiz from 6.30 onwards- so please come join us for the talk and then join us as we go to the Chemistry Society pub quiz afterwards.
Room MR252 8th October.
https://www.facebook.com/events/420253482028927/?ti=as
AUWISE STEM Pub Quiz
Come and join us for the AUWiSE pub quiz! There will be a few categories with one category focusing on women’s accomplishments in science! Additionally there is free wings and a free beer for the first 20 people to arrive with AUWiSE membership ! The winning team will also get their hands on a free gym membership for each member!!
Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 8 PM at The Bobbin!
Hope to see you all! 😀
Meet and Greet
Hello everybody!
It was great to speak to all of you during our Meet and Greet Hope to see many of you on ou upcoming events (first coming up in 2 weeks so stay tuned)In the meanwhile remember to sign up for a membership to get a discount on our events and hoodies.
https://www.ausa.org.uk/societies/society/22013/
We also have a members group, so join in and share your comments and ideas:
Freshers Fayre Stall
That’s the stall all set up! We have a quiz all about women in science and if you can guess a question right you get a free sweetie!! So come say hi and grab a leaflet or scan our QR code which will take you to the Facebook page! You can also find the QR codes all over campus!
Thank you to our President Agnieszka Fandrey, Secretary Daniel Thompson and Treasurer Julia Afanasyeva.
Women in Science
To start the new academic year off here are a select few inspirational women who made a great impact on science. Be sure to check us out on the fresher’s fayre.
-Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer
-Chien-Shiung Wu, a leading experimental physicist of the mid-twentieth century
– Emmy Noether, whose work in symmetry underlies much of modern physics-Annie Jump Cannon, who led the development of stellar classification systems
– Marie Skłodowska Curie, who made revolutionary contributions to physics and chemistry.
